Chapter 8: Q56P (page 369)
What orbital do the lone-pair electrons occupy in each of the following compounds?

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Chapter 8: Q56P (page 369)
What orbital do the lone-pair electrons occupy in each of the following compounds?


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a. Predict the relative bond lengths of the three carbon-oxygen bonds in carbonate ion.
b. What is the charge on each oxygen?

The heat of hydrogenation of 2,3-pentadiene, a cumulated diene, is 70.5 kcal/mol. What are the relative stabilities of cumulated, conjugated, and isolated dienes?
Which resonance contributor in each pair makes the greater contribution to the resonance hybrid?

Name the following dienes and rank them from most stable to least stable. (Hint: Alkyl groups stabilize dienes in the same way they stabilize alkenes; Section 5.9.)

Which of the following conjugated dienes will not react with a dienophile in a Diels–Alder reaction?

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